Hand the pager with the full picture
A handoff brief every Monday at rotation change: open incidents, recent deploys, and what the next person should watch
- Runs while your laptop is closed
- Reports in Littlebird and by email
- Free plan includes 5 routines
Jordan goes on call at 9:00 AM with one open issue and one noisy alert.
- Open: invoice exports for Birdseed Brands have been slow since Thursday, and a fix from Sam Ortiz is in review.
- Recent changes: the payments database was upgraded on Friday, so watch for slow queries early this week.
- Noisy: the disk space alert on the search cluster fired 23 times last week, and none of them needed action.
The problem
On-call handoffs are a two-line message and a prayer. The outgoing engineer's week of context (the flaky alert, the deploy to watch, the customer who keeps pinging) evaporates at 9am Monday.
The incoming engineer discovers the context at 3am Tuesday, mid-incident, which is the single worst time to learn anything.
What it does
Every Monday morning at rotation change, this routine compiles the handoff: open issues, recent changes, noisy alerts, and the things that deserve a watching eye.
The pager changes hands with the picture intact. The next engineer starts informed instead of starting blind.
Try the prompt
Copy it into a new Littlebird routine, then set the days and times that fit your schedule
- Open Littlebird and go to Routines. Open the menu next to New Routine and choose Set up manually.
- Paste the prompt into Instructions, then set the days and time under Run.
- Littlebird runs it on schedule from then on. You can pause or edit it anytime. Auto-pause is on by default and pauses it if reports go unread.
You can also choose Create with Littlebird and describe the routine in chat.
Every Monday morning prepare an on-call handoff brief for the incoming engineer
Why make it a routine?
Chat skills wait for you. Routines do not.
With a skill in an AI chat app, you are the integration: copy the email, paste the calendar, explain the background, then carry the answer back out.
Littlebird skips the middleman. It reads the sources directly, runs on your schedule, and never sells your data.
Frequently asked questions
When does it run?
At your rotation time. Set the schedule to your team's handoff day and time, and it compiles then.
Does it pull from our alerting tool?
It works from your connected context: incidents, deploys, and the week's notes around them.
Can it page the next person?
It compiles the brief for you to hand over. Paging stays with your existing on-call tooling.
What is included for the money?
Basic is free and includes routines. Paid plans add usage: Plus is $17 a month ($20 month-to-month) after a 14-day free trial, Pro starts at $100 a month, Team starts at $17 a seat, and Plus for students is $15 a month.
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